 Lucid dreaming versus astral projection. Okay, it's a big topic and there's a bit of controversy around it So I'm just gonna go and crack right into it. So today. I just wrote a blog post Explaining why in a nutshell I don't really think astral projection is What people think it is. Okay, I believe that it's essentially a Different form of lucid dreaming and I can explain why now before I start this I want to explain that these are my opinions. These are my thoughts You don't have to agree with them and please don't get offended if they don't match your own That being said, I will leave a link to my blog post in the description So you can actually read like I went into quite a lot of detail in this blog post So if you want to read that It'll probably explain a bit more than I'm gonna explain in this video that being said astral projection is something which People define astral projection as being able to separate their their spiritual or their astral body from their physical body And travel around what's known as the astral plane or the the astral world, right? And the idea is that by doing that you can interact with other people or other astral travelers You can interact with different entities. It's it's believed that you can experience Demons, you know spirits entities energies. That's one thing on the astral realm And the idea is that it's like a real tangible or not tangible, but you know what? I mean, it's like a Aster what's the word? It's a steady place. It's like Consistent, you know, whereas in a lucid dream, it's always gonna be different Whereas apparently with an astral with astral projection and astral travel you can visit specific places in the astral world And the idea is that this sort of in a way proves that it's real. I don't think it does and the reason I don't It's because the very way of inducing astral travel of having an astral projection experience is almost exactly the same as Awakened use lucid dream. Okay, so my opinion and my thoughts and please comment if you disagree with me or you have some other sort of Things you can add to this my thoughts are that astral projection Experiences are essentially just waking juice lucid dreams. So when you when someone has You know when they try and astral travel what they'll do is they'll lay or sit down They'll wait for their body to be paralyzed sleep paralysis, right? And they'll wait for their there, you know Their muscles cannot be able to move and then they'll keep their mind awake and aware as they sort of transcend into this different consciousness this different state of Awareness astral production, right? I would argue that that is essentially a waking juice lucid dream and those of you who have done waking juice lucid dreaming You'll you'll sort of agree with me because it's the same thing you know and That's one of the reasons why I've wrote this article Yeah, and the other one is this When people report what astral projection feels like okay when they actually describe the experience to other people They almost invariably will describe exactly the same thing as sleep paralysis, right? when you start to enter the the astral world you'll have like a Buzzing sensation they might hear like a ringing in their ears. They might feel like there's weight pressing against their chest These are all exactly the same as sleep paralysis and Especially when the induction method is the same as the waking juice lucid dream it leads me to think well Okay, so there's this this experience astral projection, which we have no scientific proof for Okay, there's been no studies proving that it actually is a real thing Whereas on the other hand lucid dreaming there are studies. It's been proven. It's been scientifically Shown to be a thing time and time again And there are links to these these studies in this in this proof in my article Whereas astral projection. There's no such proof, right? So we have an experience that's almost exactly the same as lucid dreaming Only different in terms of what people experience in it. So what I mean by that is When people try and astral travel they usually will have read articles about the experience saying things like Okay, when you astral travel you're going to experience demons and entities that you might not be in control of okay So so be careful is what people say by having that experience or that expectation in your head when you try and astral travel what's going to happen is you'll enter a lucid dream and Because the expectation is there you expect to be Not able to control things you expect to run into difficulties or you expect that you'll see like a Accord connecting you to your physical body because you expect these things You'll experience them and this is the same as almost any aspect to lucid dreaming what you expect to happen will happen and therefore I Have to say that I think astral projection is just another form of lucid dreaming. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing however The only warning I would say is that if you're Trying to astral travel and you have all these expectations of what you'll experience and you you believe that when you do it You won't be able to control what you experience That's kind of a bit dangerous because you're going to be entering what is a lucid dream But with the belief that you can't control it and that's just going to give you a lucid nightmare or you're just going to have a weird experience that you can't really control and Personally, I don't see the benefit of that I'd much rather have a lucid dream that I can control and that I am aware of the fact that I can control it, right? So hopefully this has made a little bit of sense If you want to learn a bit more, please go and check out my my article about this. I Just get the link quickly It's on my website how to lucid.com. I'll put a link in the description and I'll see you in the next video